Vampire Weekend admit they’re missing Horchata at final UK free gig

Vampire Weekend played the final free show of their whistle stop UK tour tonight (January 15), though bemoaned the lack of the drink Horchata in London.

Playing at the Rough Trade East record shop in the capital on the second of their two days in Britain, the band joked with the crowd at the intimate gig about the availability of the rice drink that inspired the opening track of new album ‘Contra’.

“It’s about a drink that’s very hard to find in London,” frontman Ezra Koenig told the crowd as the band performed the song ‘Horchata’. “That’s a damn shame!”

“You guys having a good year so far? Us too, I think,” Koenig told the crowd. “This is a very special week for us [as our album is out] and maybe we’ll see some of February because we only spend two weeks at a time in New York before coming back here!”